debian man page for lsh-keygen

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NAME
       lsh-keygen - Generates a keypair and write it on stdout.

SYNOPSIS
       lsh-keygen [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION
       CAUTION!  The  information  in  this manpage may be invalid or outdated. For authorative information on lsh, please see it's Texinfo manual
       (see the SEE ALSO section).

       Generates a new private key for the desired algorithm and security level and write it on stdout.

       You will usually want to pipe the new key into a program like lsh-writekey, to split it into its private and public parts,  and	optionally
       encrypt the private information.

OPTIONS
       -a, --algorithm=Algorithm
	      DSA or RSA. Default is to generate RSA keys

       -l, --nist-level=Security level
	      For  DSA keys, this is the NIST security level: Level 0 uses 512-bit primes, level 8 uses 1024 bit primes, and the default is 8. For
	      RSA keys, it's the bit length of the modulus, and the default is 2048 bits.

       --server
	      Use the server's seed-file

       --debug
	      Print huge amounts of debug information

       --log-file=File name
	      Append messages to this file.

       -q, --quiet
	      Suppress all warnings and diagnostic messages

       --trace
	      Detailed trace

       -v, --verbose
	      Verbose diagnostic messages

       -?, --help
	      Give this help list

       --usage
	      Give a short usage message

       -V, --version
	      Print program version

       Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

DIAGNOSTICS
       See the --log-file , --verbose , --trace and --debug options.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-lsh@gnu.org>.

ENVIRONMENT
       LSH_YARROW_SEED_FILE may be used to specify the random seed file.

COPYING
       The lsh suite of programs is distributed under the GNU General Public License; see the COPYING and AUTHORS files in the source distribution
       for details.

AUTHOR
       The lsh program suite is written mainly by Niels Moller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>.

       This  man-page  was  written  for  lsh 2.0 by Pontus Freyhult <pont_lsh@soua.net>, it is based on a template written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
       <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>.

SEE ALSO
       DSA(5), lsh(1), lsh-authorize(1), lsh-decode-key(1), lsh-decrypt-key(1), lsh-export-key(1), lsh-make-seed(1), lsh-upgrade(1),  lsh-upgrade-
       key(1), lsh-writekey(1), lshd(8), secsh(5), SHA(5), SPKI(5), ssh-conv(1)

       The  full  documentation  for lsh is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and lsh programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

	      info lsh

       should give you access to the complete manual.

LSH-KEYGEN							   NOVEMBER 2004						     LSH-KEYGEN(1)